National Republican., 1887-07-25

thfh 10 CnhtRe OH ". lnGTb are III ~ Iuhuy
theological semineries professors telling young |
men how to preach, themselves not knowing |
how, and an told that II young man iu
some Of our theological seminnries says any |
thing quaint or thrilling OF unique, faculty |
and students Ay at him and set him right, and |
straighten him out, and smooth him down,
and chop him Off until he says everything /
Just MS oyerybod else says H.
oh, when the future religious discourse of |
the Christian church arrives, Al the churches
oi Christ in our great cities win be, thronged.
The world wants spiritual help. All who have
buried their dead want comfort All know |
themselyes to be mortal and to be Immortal,
l tell you, my friends, II the people OF our
great cities who have had trouble only thought. |
in the Christian church there would not DO q
street in New York or Brooklyn or Chicago, or |
Charleston, or Philadelphia, or Boston which |
were church on II, for all the people would |
press to that asylum OF mercy, that great house
of comfort and consolation
A mother with dead bnbein her arms came
10 the god Veda end asked TO have her child |
restored TO life. The god Veda said to her:
"Iou go and get a handful OF mustard seed
from house in which there has been no sor.
row, and In which there has been no death,
and will restore your child to life." SO tho
mother went out, and she went from
homo, looking fora place where there had
been no sorrew and where there had been % no
aSd so aSS Na ssd nons sni
ure; You see haven't brought the mustard
seed; l can't find place where there has been
rod Veda, understand your sorrows arc no
| worse than the sorrows or others; we oil have
! our grieis, and all have our heart breaks"
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep aiono; ,,.,
| For the sad old earth must borrow Its mirth,
| But hos trouble enough oil It's own.
| We hear great deal Ioi discussion now all
II over the land about why people do not go TO
II church. Some say IT is because Christianityis Is
II in the truth OF Gods word and oil that.
II They are false reasons. The reason
is because our sermons and exhortation.
helpful. Some one might as welitsil the whoio,
| truth on this subject, ana so willtell It,. Tho
religious discourse OF the. future, the Gosnsi
Il sermon to come forth and shake the nations
| and lift people out OF darkness, will be popu.
lar sermon, just for the simple reason tha. 1t
will meet the woes and the wants and the anx-
There are In all our denominations ecclesi.
astical smummies sitting around to frown upon
the fresh young pulpits OF America .Ti TO- TO- try 70
| Sensational y They stand to-day preaching IN
churches that hold a thousand people, and
they cannot have the world saved in their way
1t seems as II they do not want It saved at all
do not know but the old way of making
ministers OF the Gospel is better-a collegiate
education and an apprenticeship under the
care and home attention OF some earnest, aged
Christian minister. the young man getting the
ligious service. Young lawyers study with old
lawyers young physicians with old physicians,
and believe IT twould be q great help II every,
| young man studying for the Gospel ministry
could put himself In the home and heart and
sympathy and under the benediction and per-
petual presence Of o Christian minister. .
| But remarked again, the religious dis
| course Of the future will be an awakening SER
mon. From altar rail to the front door step
nS TSsrs % % &c t
staccato passage. It will not be q lullaby; II
win be battle charge. Men VIII drop their
retribution on the back Of their neeks. 1t win
be sympathetic with all the. physical dis
tresses as well as the spiritual dstresses OF tho
paralysis, and He healed epilepsy, ana He
healed the dumb ana the blind and ten
that religious discourse Of the ruture will bs
every mans life, and i will teach him how TO
vote how to bargain hey hoy to plough how S'oIS e
trowel and pen and pencil and yardstick and
plane. Andit will teach women how TO pre-
SIDE over ther hOGsssholds hon Gnd how 70 educate cate
Esther and Vashti and Eunico, the mother OF
Timothy, and Mary, the mother Of Christ, and
those women who on northern and southern
battle fields were mistaken by the wounded ior
| angels OF mercy fresh from the throne OF God,
Yes, have to tell you tho religious discourse
have any idea that printing was invented sim.
ply 10 print secular books, and stenography
and photography, were contrived merely to
| set forth secular ideas, you are mistaken. The
printing press is TO be the great agency OF Cos.
pei proclamation. 1t Is high time that good
instead Of emo The press e%poy
The vast majority OF people In our cities d.
not come to church, and nothing but the
| printed sermon can reach them and call them
| 10 pardon, ard life. and peace, and heaven.
So cannot understand the nervousness OF
some of my brethern OF the ministry. When
they see newspaper man coming In thew say:
"Aias, there is reporter" Every added re-
porter is ten thousand fifty thousand. a hun
dred thousand immortal souls added 70 the
village, town, and city newspapers will re-
produce the lgospel of Jesus Christ, and SER
mons preached on the Sabbath will reverber
ate all around the world. and. some by type
gelized.
who are engaged in Christian work. not only
upon theological students and young ministers,
but upon all who preach the, Gospel and all
you are doing your duty Do you exhort in
prayer.meeting? Be short and be spirited.
DO you teach in Bible class? Though you
have to study every night, be interesting. Do
| you accost people on the subject OF religion in
their homes or in public places? Study adroit-
ness and use common sense. The most grace
religion OF Jesus Christ, and II you awkwarjly
lipresent It, IL is defamation We must do our
work RAPIDLY. and we must do 1t effectively.
II Soon our time for work Will be gone.
A dying Christian took out his watch and
! / gave It to a friend and said "1aae that watch,
i have no more use for II: time has ended for
! me and eternity begins Oh, my friends,
when our watch has tioked away for us the
last moment, and onr clock has struck for rs
the last hour. may 4 be found we did our work
| whether we preached the Gospel IN puipits or
, , taught sabbath alasses, or administered 10 the
W Is Sg
,, were, like Martha, called 70 give a meal 70 a
hungry Christ, or, like Hannah, TO make u
coat for prophet. or, like Deborah, to rouse
the courage OF some timid Barak in the Lords
conflict, we did our work In such way that 1t
! will stand the test Of the Judgment. And Ia
the long procession Of the redeemed that march
around the throne may II be fouud there are
many there BROUGHT TO God through our instrn'
mentality and in whose rescue we are exll-
But, you unsaved. walt not for that re-
ligious discourse Of the future. 1t may come
after your obsequtes. 1t may come after the
stone cutter has chisseled our name on tho
slab, fifty years before. Do not wait for a
great steamer OF the Cunard or Whito Star line
to take you off the wreck, but hail the first
craft with however low mast, and however
small hulk, ,'and however poor O rudder and
however weak captain. Better q disabled
schooner that comes up in time than full
rigged brig that comes up after you have
Instead Of waiting for that religious dis
course of the fliture-it may bs forty, fifty
years on-take this plain invitation Of man
who, 70 have given you, spiritual eyesight,
WOulu pc glau 10 De called tue bplttie Dy the
hand of Christ put on the eyes Of blind man,
ana who would consider this highest compll-
ment sof this service, If at the close 500
men should start from these doors, saying:
"Whether he be q sinner or no, know not.
now i see."
Swiiter than shadaws over the plain, quieker
than birds in their autumnal Hight hasgier
than eagles TO their prey, HE you 10 a sympa-
thetie Christ. The orchestras of heaven have
already strung their instruments 10 celebrate
your rescue,
'tAnd many were the voices around the throne;
! Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own"
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